More than 200 000 FIFA 2010 World Cup tickets were sold within the first 24 hours of ticket sales going live on-line last Friday, and the majority were sold to South Africans, reports the Sunday Argus. This figure excludes applications for tickets via branches of First National Bank.
Ticket applications came from 125 countries, and the highest number of applications, after those from South Africa, were from the UK, the USA, Germany, Brazil, Australia, Japan, Mexico, Canada, Switzerland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain and Argentina.
The ticket sales are by application, and the successful applicants for the first round of ticket sales until the end of March will be notified in April.
FIFA has expressed its satisfaction with the ticket application response. It appears less happy with the low level of Confederations Cup ticket sales, given that the Cup will be contested in South Africa in four months from now.
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